Ananteris kuryi Giupponi, Vasconcelos & Lourenço 2009

Ananteris kuryi est une espèce de scorpions de la famille des Buthidae.

Ananteris kuryi – gatunek skorpionów z rodziny Buthidae, opisany w 2009 r. przez Giupponiego, Vasconcelosa i Lourenço.

Description. Based on female holotype (measurements in Table I). Coloration. Generally yellowish with dark brown pigmented zones on the body and its appendages. Prosoma: carapace yellowish with brownish spots on the central zone, lateral and posterior edges; anterior edge with two conspicuous yellow zones; eyes surrounded by black pigment. Mesosoma: yellowish with intensely marked confl uent brownish zones on the posterior and lateral edges of tergites. Metasoma: segments I to V yellowish; all segments intensely marked with light brown spots. Vesicle yellowish without spots; the base of the aculeus yellowish and the tip light reddish. Venter yellowish; sternites with diff used brownish confl uent spots. Chelicerae yellowish with variegated blackish spots over the entire surface; fingers with blackish spots; teeth reddish. Pedipalps: yellowish; femur and patella with dispersed blackish-brown spots; chela hand almost entirely blackish-brown; fingers dark. Legs yellowish, with several blackish-brown spots.
Morphology. Carapace with thin but intense granulation; anterior margin not emarginated, almost straight. Anterior median superciliary and posterior median carinae weak or absent. All furrows moderate to weak. Median ocular tubercle distinctly anterior to the centre of the carapace; median eyes separated by approximately 0.8 of one ocular diameter. Three pairs of lateral eyes. Sternum subpentagonal. Mesosoma: tergites with moderately strong and intense granulation. Median carina moderately marked in all tergites. Tergite VII pentacarinate. Venter: genital operculum divided longitudinally, each plate more or less suboval in shape. Pectines: pectinal tooth count 13-13; basal middle lamellae of the pectines not dilated; fulcra absent. Sternites almost smooth; only VII is slightly granular; stigmata moderately elongate; setation weak; sternite VII with four weakly marked carinae. Metasoma: segments I to III with 10 carinae, crenulate. Segment IV with 8 carinae, crenulate. Intercarinal spaces slightly granular. Segment V slightly rounded with 5 carinae. Telson elongated and without granulations; with one ventral carina weakly marked; aculeus moderately short and weakly curved; subaculear tooth strong and spinoid. Cheliceral dentition characteristic of the family Buthidae (Vachon 1963); fixed finger with two moderate basal teeth; movable finger with two weak basal teeth; ventral aspect of both finger and manus with dense, long setae. Pedipalps: femur pentacarinate; patella and chela with vestigial carinae; internal face of patella with 4/5 minute spinoid granules; all faces smooth. Fixed and movable fingers with 6 almost linear rows of granules; two small external and one internal accessory granule present at the base of each row; three granules in the extremity of the fingers; Trichobothriotaxy; orthobothriotaxy A-ß-beta (Vachon 1974, 1975). Legs: tarsus with very numerous fine median setae ventrally. Tibial spurs strongly developed on leg IV; moderate on leg III.

Holotype. Female. Brazil, State of Bahia, Porto Seguro, Arraial d’Ajuda (16°27 643’ S – 039° 08 298’ W, 24-27/II/2005 (Expedição Arachné). Deposited in the arachnological collection of the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (MNRJ-11344). Paratypes, 2 females, Bahia, Porto Seguro, Trancoso, 18-19/VI/2005 (A. Chagas Jr., B. Segal, E.G. Vasconcelos) (MNRJ-11343). One paratype deposited in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris.